The complete modern London spy, for the present year, 1781, or, A real, new, and universal disclosure of the secret, nocturnal and diurnal transactions, in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark : containing, a full and entertaining view of the various scenes at this time to be met with in the metropolis and its environs ... and including an interesting and humourous description of all the present places of daily and nightly resort, with the characters (impartially and strikingly drawn) of many well-known persons who are now frequenters at gaming-houses, bagnios, and other nunneries, ... spouting-clubs, the theatres, and all places of public or private reception about Covent-Garden and other parts of the capital : the whole exhibiting a great variety of scenes of midnight entertainment and curious adventures in high, low, and middling life, which are at this period performed and carried on by the various inhabitants of London, &c. and by many persons of both sexes, whose portraits are so strongly coloured, as to be immediately known by the generality of readers both in town and country : comprising also, all the various humours, and whimsical fancies, of bucks, bloods, choice spirits, fellows of high fun, abbesses, nuns, courtezans ... and, a very great variety of original anecdotes, private intrigues, and other pleasing and agreeable articles, never noticed before in any old books of this kind : to gether with suitable reflections to the unwary /

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Edition:Revised, corrected, and improved, by Richard King, esq. author of The new frauds of London detected.
Imprint:London : Printed for Alex. Hogg, and T. Lewis, and sold by all other booksellers in town and country, [1781]
Description:viii, 13-224, that is, 124, 24 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy lacking frontispiece.
Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1904696
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Varying Form of Title:Modern display of the present nocturnal and diurnal transactions of London and Westminster
Real, new, and universal disclosure of the secret, nocturnal and diurnal transactions, in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark
Other authors / contributors:King, Richard, Esq., editor.
Hogg, Alexander, active 1778-1819, publisher.
Lewis, T., publisher.
Notes:Page 124 misnumbered '224.'
"Price eighteen-pence, with an humourous frontispiece."
"A general catalogue of valuable new books, printe for, and sold by Alex. Hoog, at No. 16 Pater-Noster-Row, London, which may also be had of most other booksellers, stationers, or news-carriers, in Great-Britain and Ireland": 24 pages at end.
English short title catalogue, entry T119930
Other form:Online version: Complete modern London Spy, for the present year, 1781; or, A real, new, and universal disclosure of the secret, nocturnal and diurnal transactions, in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and th borough of Southwark . London, Printed for A. Hogg [etc., 1781]

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